Fizik Aliante Large

Introducing the only carbon fiber thing Analog Cycles sells. All of the vital bits are not carbon. The carbon bit is a section in the middle of the saddle, the part where your body doesn’t actually impose any pressure. You could break it there, but I’ve never seen a saddle fail in that way. The Aliante large is just the widest Aliante. It’s not super wide, but it’s about the same width as a Brooks Cambium. That means its good for mountain bikes, road-ish bikes where the bars are level or just barely higher than the saddle, fast commuter bikes, that sort of thing. Fizik developed a faux leather called microtex a while back. They use this material in their shoes, bar tape, and saddles. The Aliante is covered mostly in microtex. There’s a weird shiny, partially dimpled patch of fabric on it too, which maybe looks better in person than it does in photos. The dimples are speed dimples, the same ones that golf balls and Zipp rims have. They’re put on the fabric to make you